Business Notes for Sept. 7, 2025

The Gazette’s Business Notes is a compendium of the week’s promotions, new hires, certifications, added business lines and business events, among other items, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and the rest of the Corridor. Information and photos can be submitted at https://www.thegazette.com/business-notes/submit/

New hires

Dr. Gilles Jad Hoilat has joined Mercy GI Clinic as a gastroenterologist.

Greg Jergens has joined Tanager as vice president of development.

Promotions

At Hills Bank, Adrian Marsden has been promoted to first vice president, branch manager, in the Cedar Rapids office.

Kudos

Simmons Perrine Moyer Bergman PLC attorney Joseph Porter graduated from the International Association of Defense Counsel’s (IADC) 51st Annual Trial Academy at Stanford Law School in Palo Alto, Calif. The IADC Trial Academy is one of the oldest and most respected programs for developing defense trial advocacy skills.

Other news

Small Business of the Week: U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, has announced Marcus Lumber of Cherokee County in northwest Iowa as her small business of the week. Founded in 1920, Marcus Lumber has grown from a small-town lumberyard into a full-service home improvement business serving the region. Now in its fourth generation of family ownership, the company has rebuilt after setbacks, expanded to multiple locations, and continues to give back to the community. Ernst, chair of the Senate’s Small Business Committee, is naming one exceptional small business of the week in each of Iowa’s counties during this congressional session.